JAMES NACHTWEY

A timely collection of rarely seen work by the world's most important war photographer - his first book in two decades. James Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting conflict and critical social issues, creating a much-admired body of work that covers events in conflict-riven countries and the theatres of war around the globe. This, his latest book, which accompanies a major exhibition, presents some of the most searing of his images, showing the ways in which he uses his camera to pay homage to the victims of violence.

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• The only major monograph of humanitarian and photojournalist James Nachtwey, four-time winner of the Robert Capa Medal for Photography • Features brutally compassionate photographs taken from 1990-99, inspired by an overwhelming belief in the human possibility of change • Documents today`s conflicts and their victims, from Somalia`s famine to genocide in Rwanda, from Romania`s abandoned orphans and `irrecoverables` to the lives of India`s `untouchables~ from war in Bosnia to conflict in Chechnya.